Visual Art

Rhythm of the Beating Colin McGookin

Year Produced 1983

Visual Art

Irish Landscape 2 Catherine McWilliams

Year Produced 1983

The final report of the new Ireland Forum is published

1984

Three options are offered for Northern Ireland: a unitary state; a federal arrangement; and a joint authority solution. The report also rejects the use of violence to achieve political change in Northern Ireland.

The Grand Hotel in Brighton bombed

1984

A bomb planted by the Provisional IRA in the Grand Hotel explodes on the last day of the Conservative Party Conference. Five people are killed and many others wounded.

Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald meets Margaret Thatcher

1984

The meeting takes place at Chequers to discuss the potential consequences for constitutional politics in the event of the rise in support for Sinn Fein. At a press conference later that day, Margaret Thatcher rejects the proposals of the New Ireland Forum in her famous &

Arise O Great Zimbabwe Dermot Seymour

Year Produced 1984

Visual Art

The Russians will Water their Horses on the Shores of Lough Neagh Dermot Seymour

Year Produced 1984

Nine RUC officers killed in a mortar attack on Newry police station

1985

Rioting in Portadown as Orange marches are re-routed

1985

The Anglo-Irish Agreement signed

1985

The agreement is signed by Garret Fitzgerald and Margaret Thatcher at Hillsborough Castle. The Agreement introduces an Intergovernmental Conference headed by the Secretary of State and the Irish Foreign Minister, which will meet regularly to promote cross-border cooperat

Year Produced 1988

Visual Art

Stalemate Gerry Gleason

Year Produced 1988

Visual Art

Beyond the Pale Gerry Gleason

Year Produced 1988

Pat Finucane murdered in his home

1989

Pat Finucane, a solicitor who had represented a number of Republicans, is hot in his home by members of the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF). Rumours of collusion between Loyalists and security forces follow.

IRA bomb Deal army barracks in Kent

1989

Ten members of the Royal Marines band are killed in an attack on the Deal army barracks.

The Guilford Four are released by the Court of Appeal

1989

The Guilford Four are released on appeal having spent 14 years in prison wrongly convicted of the Birmingham pub bombings